Renaissance and Reformation Figures and Concepts

Growth of trade and business in Europe.

• Commercial Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

• Digital Revolution

Sculptor and architect who shaped Baroque art.

• Lorenzo Bernini

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Donatello

• Raphael Sanzio

Author of The Courtier, about how to be a perfect gentleman.

• Baldassare Castiglione

• Niccolò Machiavelli

• Francesco Petrarch

• Giovanni Boccaccio

Famous artist and inventor known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

• Vincent van Gogh

• Pablo Picasso

• Leonardo DaVinci

• Claude Monet

Priest who defended Native American rights.

• Bartolome de las Casas

• Hernán Cortés

• Francisco Pizarro

• Diego de Landa

System where Spanish settlers controlled Native Americans for labor.

• Encomienda

• Mestizaje

• Repartimiento

• Hacienda

Inventor of the printing press with movable type.

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Isaac Newton

German monk who started the Protestant Reformation with the 95 Theses.

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Henry VIII

• Ulrich Zwingli

Acceptance of different religions.

• Religious Pluralism

• Religious Exclusivism

• Religious Fundamentalism

• Religious Syncretism

Philosopher famous for 'Oration on the Dignity of Man.'

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

• René Descartes

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Immanuel Kant